a motley selection of sugar & spice...
the perfect wave as yet not encountered or discovered, but the search continues...
harmony & melody, rhythm & the spaces between...
it is all perception...

sugar & spice

the second in a pair of pieces of linked melodies

Sequence B

a progression from the sequence pair already posted...in fact this too is a string of melodies which seemed to flow...

Persona non Grata

a laid-back groove with some experimentation with both percussion and instrumentation

Green Fingers

a breathless chase to the finish...while the overlaid recorder takes it easy Tortoise & the Hare?

a Run for Your Money

another piece with multiple melodies strung together like beads on a string...

Laundry Day

while the bpm remain the same throughout there is a doubling of time and then a reversion to the previous tempo

March Hare

strident electric baglama gives way to softer tones supplied by winds & sanxian

River Dance

a brief view into the twilight world...spookily yet somehow comforting... the continuo supplied by a kopuz (a mini baglama)

Twilight

another moody piece...
continuo & melody supplied by kora, guitars

Wires

what started off as a vocal piece ended up as this instrumental one...
my voice just isn't up to it any more so my guitars and sazes speak for me...

Rapprochement

using natural sounds this one includes some local crows

Corvid Capers

A Bat & Psaltery

January 2022's efforts...
the usual worldly mix of the conventional and the outlandish...served [this month] in prophetic proportions...
the symmetry was too hard to ignore...
life as we know it is to be changed forever...

Lost Prophets

Dead Prophets

Beat Prophets

Given The Circumstances

Ulek

Ground Cover

Pieds-à-Terre

a laid-back approach to dealing with Customs...
the instrumentation suggests a far east terminal...
of course, there's always the double entendre of remaining silent...

Nothing To Declare

the ney (flute) is played by Fahreddin Acar, member of the sufi orchestra(of whirling dervish fame)in Konya, Turkey. Recorded in the summer of 1992 on a portable DAT recorder.

Tigris

a little indonesian and a little turkish into the mix here...several melodies and some unmetered [cross-metered?] solo saz playing...
some cool grooves along the way... an variety-packed 5-1/2 minutes

Patara

melodic soft rock style with some saz for interest...after hours music...
highway music...
the title is taken from a section of the highway which runs through British Columbia between Jasper & Vancouver... the word Coquihalla is from the Halq'emeylem language.

Coquihalla

this began as an experiment with a west-African style lick and developed into what you hear.

Misgivings

a soundtrack-like piece with some exotic instrumentation thrown into the mix...also some groovy bass riffs and home-spun percussion...something to listen to while drinking your Sunday morning latte.

BreadCrumbs

standing on a hill @ dusk watching the lights begin to shine down in the town below...lots of syncopation here...some innovative percussion efx generated by unconventional tools.

City Lights

the synth trill is an adaptation taken from a recording of a flute player that I made in China performed by a senior citizen among a group playing and singing what were described as "Songs of the Revolution"... a nostalgic musical review of the Maoist years.
the photo with the red stars is one I took at a Buddhist temple/school in Vientiane, Laos.

Red Star

this piece begins [and ends] with tamboura and distinctly indian influences. However, despite that, it progresses into a soft rock instrumental via some un-western harmonies and instrumentation where both tabla & drum kit make appearances...hence the title...
the blackbird was recorded from my back yard.

Emergence

the tense central theme is repeated several times and punctuated by an assortment of variations.

Night Crossing

this "madhouse" piece in in 15/8 time signature...there is a spell of sanity and melody within it, but that merely adds to the incongruity of this instrumental.

DeadLine

a contemplative introduction broadens into variations on the original theme
...also includes some "unexpected" harmonies and chord progressions [strings, piano] and some short but compelling melodies.

Shrug

a decidedly gothic start to this piece and although the theme is consistent, there are developments which may be construed as unorthodox.....
think Ryuchi Sakomoto's "Sheltering Sky". 
the harmonies provide a hint of something unearthly or maybe from the crypt? 
the efx include local rooks and a very ancient bell located in Veauche, France.

Romanesque

composer of music in a variety of genres; from pop to ambient to ethnic traditional... in recent years have been writing music for stage plays...
a.k.a. "13" on SpaceMedia...

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